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luminaria

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lu·mi·nar·i·a  (lm-nâr-)
n.
1. A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito.
2. New Mexico A bonfire built in front of each house in a pueblo to celebrate Christmas Eve.

[Spanish, from Latin lminria, pl. of lminre, lamp; see luminary.]
Regional Note: In recent years it has become commonplace to see entire American neighborhoods decorated during holiday seasons with luminarias lining driveways, sidewalks, or rooftops. A luminaria is a votive candle set inside a small decorative paper bag weighted with sand. The bags are usually colored and often perforated with designs through which the candle inside shows as bright pinpricks of light. The custom of luminarias comes from Mexico and was practiced in New Mexico for many years before spreading throughout the United States. It derives from a similar holiday custom of the Pueblo peoples in New Mexico. On Christmas Eve they build a bonfire, called a luminaria, outside each house.

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Da mo' in avanti tute le donne della ditta scuola debia esser metude a tolela e che caschaduna donna della ditta scuola debia aver una tolella sovra la qual sia scrito lo so nome e fato 'l so segno e che ogna prima domenega del mese che s' e lo di ordenado le ditte donne debia vegnir alla casa della dicta scuola a levar le ditte soe tolelle o mandar a levarle pagando picoli due per ogni di ordenado per luminaria.
 
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